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THINKERTOYS (MIND PUMPING EXERCISES (Content Analysis - trend analysis,…

- - - - pick a situation, list assumptions, reverse them, accomplish the goal with reversed assumptions
      - Example: restaurant without menus
  - - - put down a concept (expressed in key words), put a bubble around it. Then put down another concept further away, draw a bubble around it. And the third one. You connect the ones that are related, spread out to the new ideas. Connect again…
- - - - tripping in the past: recall the time (in detail) when you were most at ease (e.g. bathing in the sun)
      - Truman's foxhole - retrieve to a safe place / happy place
      - jell-o syndrom - imagine you are an inflatable ballon, relax each muscle at a time
      - hot air balloon - store problems and worries, and let it fly
      - let go - a monkey and a narrow-mouthed jar
      - warm stones: warm hands, heavy limbs - self hypnosis
      - AUM - vocalise the pressure release
      - Slight of mind: diverting attention on purpose by doing something you usually do (hobby, etc). "Mental excursion" technique used by creative consultants: change of focus, clear the head - literary and metaphorically
  - - - combine with reason / logic
      - Daniel Isenber on Managers
      - Practice gut feeling before decisions
      - Principles of the universe are revieled through intuition
      - 5 Components of Problem Solving w/ Intuition: a. know how to attack
        b. ability to relate, see the links among ideas
        c. recognise the crux of the problem
        d. see in advce the general solution
        e. feel the right one - see what may be rather than what "is"
      - Brainwriting: Writing questions and answers without filters...wait for the feeling
  - - - cycle:intensive thinking - break - leave alone - incubate - regenerate
  - - - Personal Analogy
      - Direct Analogy
      - Symbolic Analogy
      - Fantasy Analogy
- - - - thinks in terms of images - Intuitive thinking
        
        generate new information using insight, imagination and intuition.
        
        recognising pattern
        relating things
        
        visualising
        visual memory
        
        synthesising
        
        intuition
        insight
        gut feeling
        
        seeing whole solutions at one
        seeing similartiies
        
        awareness without defintion
        dreaming
        
        integrating many inputs at once
        holistic perception or thinking
      - artists, craftsmen, musicians
    - - thinks in terms of words and symbols - Linear thinking
        
        structure existing information
        
        processing information in a linear fashion
        
        operating sequentially
        
        dealing with one thing at a time
        
        writing
        
        analysing
        
        idea-linking
        
        abstracting
        
        categorising
        
        logic
        reasoning
        judgement
        
        mathematical
        verbal memory
        using symbols
      - writers, mathematicians, scientists